Most Popular Theatre in Manchester
Thu 26 Mar - Tue 28 Apr 2026
Wed 20 Aug - Sat 4 Oct 2025
Wed 30 Apr 2025 - Fri 13 Feb 2026
Wed 9 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Driftwood
Thursday 20 - Friday 21 March 2025
An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging from the company that produced hit shows Peak Stuff and How Not To Drown. Two brothers on a beach need to figure out what to do with their dad - but the sea has other ideas. Mark and Tiny wa...
Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Thursday 20 March 2025
In recent years, recordings of Belgian women's choir Scala have been used repeatedly in various Hollywood productions. Their unique sound always reinforces the emotions shown on the big screen, in an unparalleled way. Conducted by Stijn K...
Peter's Field
Thursday 20 March 2025
A new Rochdale made musical marking one of the most momentous days in working class history enjoyed a remarkable debut at FolkEast on the 205th anniversary of Peterloo. Written by award-winning songwriter and member of The Young'uns, Sean C...
The Influence of Kate Greenaway on Illustrations and Illustrators
Thursday 20 March 2025
How did Kate Greenway's art reach and move generations of children? How do named literary prizes influence book sales and the publishing trade? Why does it seem that historical women are erased more often than men? This talk by historian an...
Cycles
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 March 2025
Cycles is movement at its most fluid, distilled and skilled. Resolute and unapologetic, Boy Blue's latest production is a celebration of hip hop dance in all its forms. Experience the connection between the movement on stage and the rhyth...
Antony Szmierek
Friday 21 March 2025
Manchester spoken word and indie hip-hop artist Antony Szmierek has a distinctive way of mixing introspective and poetic lyrics with cool nostalgic beats which have seen him compared to Mike Skinner and The Streets. "He is being lauded as o...
Steptoe & Son Live
Friday 21 March 2025
You wouldn't think it was possible for this 'rag and boning' duo to still be at it after all this time, but here they are! Albert is still a dirty old man and Harold is as pretentious as ever. Come and join Steptoe & Son for all the hilar...
Scott Bennett
Friday 21 March - Friday 28 November 2025
As heard on BBC Radio 4!As a society we love stuff, it's a statement about who we are and who we want to be. But apparently, this message is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. We're now struggling to balance these worlds, to foc...
Geoff Norcott
Friday 21 March 2025
Conservative Party supporting comedian Geoff Norcott is working on his fifth national tour show, and takes to the road with his new tour Basic Bloke following on the back of "Conswervative", "Traditionalism", "Taking Liberties" and "I Blame...
Sean McLoughlin
Friday 21 March 2025
International microstar Sean McLoughlin is back on the road with a scintillating new stand-up show, "White Elephant." The world may be a strange and scary place but there's no need for the bastards to get you down. Come sit in a dark...
Learning To Fly
Friday 21 March 2025
With a 5 star review in the Guardian, who described it as "a riveting remarkable hour of theatre," this uplifting, big hearted and hilarious new one man show from James Rowland promises a glorious and irreverent evening with one of the UK's...
Brief History of a Family
Friday 21 March 2025
Buried tensions resurface when a mysterious stranger befriends a seemingly perfect family, in this taut and wicked tale....
Flow
Friday 21 March 2025
Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat alongside other animals, all searching for safety in a new world....
Santosh
Friday 21 March 2025
A complex character study of a female cop whose moral conflict lays bare the oppression of casteism and misogyny in Northern India....
Treading Water + Q&038;A
Friday 21 March 2025
Set against a backdrop of everyday life in Manchester, Gino Evans? debut feature marks the arrival of an exciting new voice in Northern cinema. ...
When Autumn Falls
Friday 21 March 2025
Strained family relations and generational tensions are explored in Fran?ois Ozon?s new offering....
Comedy Night Live with Headliner Kevin Finn
Friday 21 March 2025
FRIDAY 21ST MARCH 2025 Comedy Night Live comes back to Horwich R.M.I Club in Bolton with a quality line up of 3 fantastic professional comedians alongside your brilliant host and compere Bobby Murdock. Headline Act Kevin Finn Kevin is a mul...
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Saturday 22 March 2025
Join one of the most influential medical doctors in the UK, Dr Rangan Chatterjee, host of Europe's biggest health podcast Feel Better, Live More, author of five Sunday Times Bestselling Books and star of BBC One's Doctor In The House, fo...
Sue, Matt & Phil Live! The Reunion Tour
Saturday 22 March 2025
Sue Barker, Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell are back in this exciting and hilarious live show. Joining the gang will be A-list celebrity guests from the world of sport who will compete against each other, putting their knowledge to the test as...
Scott Bennett
Saturday 22 March 2025 - Friday 20 February 2026
As heard on BBC Radio 4!As a society we love stuff, it's a statement about who we are and who we want to be. But apparently, this message is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. We're now struggling to balance these worlds, to foc...
Nick Cope's Family Show
Saturday 22 March 2025
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animations to sell-out crowds all over the country. He has an incredible fan ...
Nick Cope's Family Show
Saturday 22 March 2025
Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years, he performs with his guitar and animations to sell-out crowds all over the country. He has an incredible fan ...
Larry Dean
Saturday 22 March 2025
Thrice Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominee and two-time star of Live At The Apollo, returns with a hilarious brand new show, Dodger, about identity, heroes and the benefits of being a dafty. Larry has been spending a lot of time with his gran...
Restless + Q&038;A
Saturday 22 March 2025
A mild-mannered care worker?s peaceful existence is disturbed when an intimidating party animal moves into the house next door....
Afternoon Tea Dance - Ramsbottom Civic
Saturday 22 March 2025
Enjoy an afternoon tea with ballroom, Latin and sequence dancing, and some freestyle ballroom and jive. Large dance floor,Bar,DJ/Host Julie Lomas,...
The Dinosaur That Pooped
Sunday 23 March 2025
When Danny and Dino's favourite rock band are playing their last ever concert, they go on a quest to get the last two tickets. But with a villainous band manager lurking, nothing goes to plan. Will the band perform? Will Danny rock out? Or ...
Manchester United Legends - 1985 & 1990 FA Cup Special
Sunday 23 March 2025
An Afternoon with Manchester United Legends: FA Cup Special celebrates the 35th and 40th anniversaries of Manchester United's iconic FA Cup triumphs in 1985 and 1990. This special event will bring together the legends who made history in th...
The Repair Shop - Secrets from the Barn
Sunday 23 March 2025
The Repair Shop is stepping out of the barn and onto the stage for an exciting new live tour! This captivating live show will feature Will Kirk, Steve Fletcher, Lucia Scalisi and The Teddy Bear Ladies - Amanda Middleditch and Julie Tatchell...
Huge Davies
Sunday 23 March 2025
Huge will be performing a series of songs, but not songs he's written - these are songs passed down from his family members and ancestors (dead). From his Grandpa Joe finally winning a ticket to the chocolate factory to his brother Elliot f...
Stars for Tonight
Sunday 23 March 2025
Showcasing the talent from local students on the big stage, NW Productions present Stars For Tonight, a variety showcase giving students some memories to last a lifetime. ...
An Evening with Kevin Sinfield
Monday 24 March 2025
Kevin Sinfield, is one of the most successful players in rugby league history. Having won many championships and Challenge Cup successes as part of great teams, he also earned individual accolades as winner of the Lance Todd Trophy the Harr...
I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
Monday 24 March 2025
The BBC's multi award-winning antidote to panel games, comes to town for an unmissable evening of inspired nonsense with chairman Jack Dee and the panel. "Whether the teams are singing the words of one song to the tune of another, making up...
Cruel Intentions
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Packed with 90s pop classics including the songs of Britney Spears, Boyz II Men, Christina Aguilera, TLC, R.E.M., Ace of Base, Natalie Imbruglia, The Verve, *NSYNC and many more, the brand new smash hit musical Cruel Intentions is based on ...
The House Party
Tuesday 25 - Saturday 29 March 2025
A wild party. A friendship. And one night that changes everything. It's Julie's 18th birthday, and she's throwing a party in her father's extravagant townhouse. Her boyfriend has just dumped her and her long-suffering best friend Christine ...
Coram Shakespeare Schools Theatre Festival
Tuesday 25 - Friday 28 March 2025
Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation presents the world's largest youth drama festival, an evening of live theatre, featuring a series of unique abridged Shakespeare productions by local schools. ...
Pig Heart Boy
Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 March 2025
Is it better to have a pig's heart that works ... than a human heart that doesn't? Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal - have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately nee...
Of Mice and Men
Wednesday 26 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
A gripping tale of hope and friendship. Lennie and George are unlikely best friends, two drifters bound together by a shared faith and the ambition to live the great American dream. Landing a job on a Californian ranch during the Great Depr...
Catherine Bohart
Wednesday 26 March 2025
Catherine Bohart's back and older than ever with her new show "Again, With Feelings." And adulthood frankly isn't living up to her expectations. Join this "effortless" (Chortle) "star in the making" (Skinny) for a hilariously twisted second...
Paddy McGuinness
Thursday 27 - Friday 28 March 2025
Making a long-awaited return to stand-up, one of the country's best-loved and most popular comedians, Bolton funny man Paddy McGuinness embarks on his first major UK tour since 2016, with his new show Nearly There... Paddy McGuinness is a m...
RuPaul's Drag Race - Werq The World
Thursday 27 March 2025
We welcome you to a night of stars, where the red carpet meets the spotlight at RuPaul's Drag Race WERQ THE WORLD 2025 World Tour. Presented by Voss Events in collaboration with World of Wonder and MTV, the 2025 show will be an all-new stag...
National Theatre Live - Dr. Strangelove (15)
Thursday 27 March - Saturday 12 April 2025
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in this pre-recorded cinema screening of the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear a...
Nemo
Thursday 27 March 2025
The winner of the 68th Eurovision Song Contest in 2024, Swiss singer/songwriter Nemo Mettler heads out across the continent to say hi to their hoards of new fans. The Biel/Bienne singer-rapper, who also plays the violin, piano and drums,...
RNCM Brass Band
Thursday 27 March 2025
Established during the 1990s by brass innovator Howard Snell, the RNCM Brass Band has always been a flagship ensemble of the institution. Geographically the RNCM is ideally placed in Manchester for brass band students and it boasts a teachi...
Barbara
Thursday 27 March 2025
An immersive theatrical experience that sensitively explores the subject of dementia through the lens of how we care for those we love and how we care for ourselves. Barbara and Bernard will transport you, their guests, to a bygone era ...
Baby &038; Carer/ Flow
Thursday 27 March 2025
Cat is a solitary animal, but as his home is devastated by a great flood, he finds refuge on a boat alongside other animals, all searching for safety in a new world....
It&8217;s the Economy Stupid
Thursday 27 - Friday 28 March 2025
Armed with bags, boxes and an old board game, Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells embark on a quest to uncover how the economy wins elections, and why the force that dominates our lives is so bloody complicated!??...
Have A Word - Murderers Row
Friday 28 - Saturday 29 March 2025
The Have A Word Podcast presents a night of stand-up comedy hosted by Adam Rowe & Dan Nightingale - two of the best comedians in the game. Guest comics include superstars and rising talents. The one thing they have in common: they all absol...
Amy & Carlos - Reborn
Friday 28 March 2025
Having made a stunning return to the Strictly dancefloor, Amy Dowden MBE - accompanied by fellow sensational Strictly Come Dancing star Carlos Gu - truly feels Reborn. Join Amy and Carlos as they share an intimate portrait of their lives an...
Candlelight - A Tribute to ABBA
Friday 28 March 2025
Candlelight concerts bring the magic of a live, multi-sensory musical experience to awe-inspiring locations never before used for this purpose in Manchester. Buy your tickets now to discover the music of ABBA at Manchester Cathedral under t...
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